Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Cemetery, People

Location

1550 E Lake Rd, Deruyter, NY 13052, USA

Lat/Long

42.799249, -75.879485

Grant Recipient

Tromptown Historical Society

Pastor and Revolutionary War veteran David Davis is buried here at Burdick Cemetery in Deruyter, New York. Born in Connecticut around 1749, David Davis served with the Dutchess County militia during the American Revolution. Published around 1811, “A History of the Sabbatarians or Seventh Day Baptists in America” describes Davis as “esteemed a man of irreproachable character.” Around 1806, Davis came to reside near Deruyter and was established as an elder and later as first pastor of the local Seventh Day Baptist Church. This was recorded in “A History of the Sabbatarians”:

Said Elders and brethren met at said Deruyter with those brethren in the 26th day of Sept. 1806- and finding them mutually agreed, proceeded to constitute them a distinct church, in a sister relation with the other churches of the Sabbatarian order- their numbers male and female being 23-who chose David Davis to be ordained as an evangelist, and to preach to them, or to have the lead among them.

Davis served as pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church for a number of years until his death in 1827.